WordCount performance

[Walter Bright]

Saaa wrote:
> And maybe a silly question but how does optimizing D compare to optimizing 
> C++.
> Or is this exactly the same as the backend is that similar? 

The backend is not only similar, it is exactly the same.

Where C++ and D differ is in various opportunities present in the 
language semantics. For example, D has invariants so it can do some more 
aggressive optimizations that C++ cannot.